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Army & Air Targets. The air war in "MIG Alley" (see below) and U.N. air attacks on the enemy's rear went on without letup. Van Fleet's original order on ground activity was soon modified. Some allied artillery crews began firing at "any and all targets." In one night, U.N. airmen sighted 9,700 enemy trucks rolling south toward the front, many of them with their headlights on for the sake of more speed. The airmen claimed to have destroyed 300 trucks, only a small fraction of the enemy traffic, the heaviest of the entire...
...stream of Communist invective and charges of U.N. truce violations continued last week without letup. The Peking radio frankly admitted what the free world had suspected for weeks-that the breakdown at Kaesong was closely linked to the signing of the Japanese treaty (see INTERNATIONAL). The Reds had obviously hoped to use Korea as an instrument of blackmail at San Francisco. General Ridgway seized an obvious last chance to get the truce talks on the track again and formally suggested to the Reds that the conference site be moved to another location. In a message to Kim II Sung...
Slowdown? But there are already signs that in the long run, a cease-fire would slow the pace of rearmament (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). Although Defense Chief Charles E. Wilson insists there must be no letup, Government officials who have publicly backed Wilson's campaign to complete the defense program by mid-1953 now privately say it might better be stretched out to 1954 or 1955. Economy-minded Congressmen, already calling for a closer check on military spending, have plumped for a cut of $1 billion to $2 billion in next year's $49 billion schedule of defense spending...
...Thirty armed [Red Chinese police] took over, first searching both men and women after the removal of their outer clothing, then each room separately. This process lasted for 37 hours without letup, interspersed with interrogation, false accusations, and constant surveillance even to the extent of ladies being accompanied into bathrooms. Speech with one another was forbidden...
...swap: down to Randy's old job stepped a veteran newsman, Edmond D. Coblentz, 67, able publisher of the Call-Bulletin for the last ten years, who wanted to take things easier. For "Cobbie," who likes to sport a cane and carnation, it was the first letup in 50 years of hustling for Hearst as reporter and editor. Cobbie himself announced the change at a San Francisco banquet for 400, including Governor Earl Warren, Louis B. Mayer, Sam Goldwyn and assorted top Hearst brass, and was given a memento of his San Francisco days. The gift: a cable...